James Lawson Drummond (c. 1783 – 1853) was an Irish physician, naturalist and botanist.
Drummond was born in Larne, Co. Antrim and educated at the Belfast Academy.
He received a surgical training at the Belfast Academical Institution and was an apprentice surgeon in the Royal Navy.
[3] The Drummond's sea cucumber Thyonidium drummondi (Thompson, 1840)[4] was named for him, as was the pearlfish Echiodon drummondii.
[5][6] His elder brother was the poet and controversialist William Hamilton Drummond.